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barbara ehrenreich president and executive director of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law hilary shelton washington bureau director and senior vice president for advocacy the end he and katherine culliton good solid senior attorney and director of voter protection the advancement project and thank you all for joining us is. appreciate let's start off with the voter suppression from the columbus dispatch reported today that there is a data glitch in cuyahoga county democratic leaning county. and that it has to a data sharing this is just a coincidence that i'm not sure who to direct it if any of you know are familiar with this. by saying we don't know is a coincidence or not but it's a problem and very well we have to make sure this doesn't interfere with people's opportunity to participate in this electoral process it would move towards tuesday . a c.p.s. deployed monitors into cuyahoga county as well as the justice department we're very happy to announce as also deployed official federal monitors into total counted to look into this issue an issue that concerns the bottom
barbara ehrenreich president and executive director of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law hilary shelton washington bureau director and senior vice president for advocacy the end he and katherine culliton good solid senior attorney and director of voter protection the advancement project and thank you all for joining us is. appreciate let's start off with the voter suppression from the columbus dispatch reported today that there is a data glitch in cuyahoga county democratic...
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this law basically what it does is that it will criminalize people who are in protests if the police of that city deem the protest to be an unlawful assembly now of course that varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction terms of how easy it is for the police force to say this is an unlawful assembly or it is a lawful assembly but let's look at montreal for example and across go back in any major city and come back where if you were fifty people or more in a in a peaceful protest in a nonviolent protest that could be depended on unlawful assembly if you have an opera sent to your itinerary and the directions of according to your protests routes to the police force of them in a spot in the back before the protest has started and that's what's causing a lot of controversy because people are saying you know it's my inherent right to go out and express our opinions me able to go to the streets and take to the streets in a peaceful manner when i was covering as a reporter the major i guess you protests that were happening in downtown one show because of the students protests that were happen
this law basically what it does is that it will criminalize people who are in protests if the police of that city deem the protest to be an unlawful assembly now of course that varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction terms of how easy it is for the police force to say this is an unlawful assembly or it is a lawful assembly but let's look at montreal for example and across go back in any major city and come back where if you were fifty people or more in a in a peaceful protest in a nonviolent...
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the answer is john green bob he's the chief counsel of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law hey there john let's start off by asking why are iowa secretary of state and the texas attorney general so opposed to voting monitors. again thanks for having me. i really don't know it's really quite silly the monitors from europe have been monitoring. elections for the last several years and be meeting with them to morrow and there is never been a problem like this before would you consider this a double standard considering the fact that the u.s. is advocating this group to i.c.e. and they're also advocating them. going into other countries the fifty six other states that are in countries that are participating in this and saying hey you can go ahead and monitor their elections here but when it comes to us we are fine we don't need any help. well. you've you've talked about the to sort out there the texas attorney general and the secretary of state and it's really unfortunate really gives us a black eye as a country and we should be transparent about our elections and have people i
the answer is john green bob he's the chief counsel of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law hey there john let's start off by asking why are iowa secretary of state and the texas attorney general so opposed to voting monitors. again thanks for having me. i really don't know it's really quite silly the monitors from europe have been monitoring. elections for the last several years and be meeting with them to morrow and there is never been a problem like this before would you consider...
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was in the us the rule of law only goes as far as the supreme court allows it and one time of day is a long way from home coming up we'll tell you how the government is making up laws as it goes along and breaking its own rules as it sees fit. it's thursday november first i am liz wall and you're watching r t. well cities along the east coast today continuing to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of hurricane sandy this oracle storm has caused massive destruction to u.s. infrastructure it's projected to cost tens of billions of dollars and now homeland security is using sandy as proof that the u.s. needs to be thought cybersecurity protections homeland security janet napolitano said yesterday quote if you think that a critical systems attack that takes down a utility even for a few hours is not serious just look at what is happening now that mother nature has taken out those utilities so is superstorm sandy indeed proof that the u.s. infrastructure is a vulnerable to cyber attacks to discuss this and more are two where producer andrew blake joined us earlier today i asked him if it
was in the us the rule of law only goes as far as the supreme court allows it and one time of day is a long way from home coming up we'll tell you how the government is making up laws as it goes along and breaking its own rules as it sees fit. it's thursday november first i am liz wall and you're watching r t. well cities along the east coast today continuing to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of hurricane sandy this oracle storm has caused massive destruction to u.s. infrastructure it's...
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since two thousand and one but i guess that's not enough deaths to constitute reevaluation of how our law enforcement uses these weapons to stop tasiast bro and to break the set i'm first bringing you an interview i just did with ralph nader last night. and the large number of issues of you've never seen anything like i'm drunk. you may already be aware that there's a third party debate taking place right here on monday night and one well known political activists is hosting another third party debate this sunday right here in washington d.c. that activist is perennial presidential candidate ralph nader and his message is clear out with the old and in with the new new political direction that is sort of talk about the desperate need for a third party voice and breaking out of the lesser of two evils mentality i'm joined by the third party girl himself ralph nader former u.s. presidential candidate and author of many bestselling books including most recently the seventeen solutions bold ideas for our american future ralph thank you so much for coming on i think you're a fan so at this poin
since two thousand and one but i guess that's not enough deaths to constitute reevaluation of how our law enforcement uses these weapons to stop tasiast bro and to break the set i'm first bringing you an interview i just did with ralph nader last night. and the large number of issues of you've never seen anything like i'm drunk. you may already be aware that there's a third party debate taking place right here on monday night and one well known political activists is hosting another third party...
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there so the rise in employment law and that's it right there will end in ways that rise from obamacare and you're sticking to that obamacare thesis despite the revision in part time jobs for september which was revised down after that huge number was reported. well we had what was last month was eight hundred fifty two hundred sixty two thousand jobs but tell you of the last month they were i would see that we expect to see a resurgent reversion to the mean here we're going to got not the direction that i expected by the way because whole time employment actually rose today right but we're looking at you know one good number you know not in context what this trend has been really all year towards more part time employment a lot of people tell me you know and quite accurately as they've met you know you can't blame all of this on obamacare but i never did in the first place or all i said was it was a factor right so we've had this trend towards part time employment for a long time yet we have why because companies don't want to pay wages so obamacare didn't create things but obamacare.
there so the rise in employment law and that's it right there will end in ways that rise from obamacare and you're sticking to that obamacare thesis despite the revision in part time jobs for september which was revised down after that huge number was reported. well we had what was last month was eight hundred fifty two hundred sixty two thousand jobs but tell you of the last month they were i would see that we expect to see a resurgent reversion to the mean here we're going to got not the...
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under national rights and international law we should not iraq we need to cut the budget and bring the troops home we should end the war in afghanistan. the persecution of what's. left. british lawmakers who voted against giving. a leadership tongue lashing free warned they threatened the country's isolation within the e.u. that's coming up. also greece goes gunning for journalists who know too much as a reporter who says he's gunned down on the deficit gets arrested details just ahead. what's the difference between a samurai sword and a blind guys walking stick well known if you're one of the cops in northern england an elderly blind architect with taser in the back because his cane looks like a sword that was used in a nearby crime honest mistake because swords are often tubular and use this walking sticks more and more we hear stories like this like the handcuffed youth who is shot in the back to death or the unarmed guy in a wheelchair who got blown away by the boys in blue i understand that being in the police is rough everyone lies to you and any given day you could be shot dead
under national rights and international law we should not iraq we need to cut the budget and bring the troops home we should end the war in afghanistan. the persecution of what's. left. british lawmakers who voted against giving. a leadership tongue lashing free warned they threatened the country's isolation within the e.u. that's coming up. also greece goes gunning for journalists who know too much as a reporter who says he's gunned down on the deficit gets arrested details just ahead. what's...
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that which is power chapter six which i think gets to this crackdown on corporate crime that's simple law enforcement the budgets are the credibly small if you had a massive street crime wave in new york and you only had one hundred cops what would be the obvious next step you hire more cops so we need more federal cops on the corporate crime beat but the corporations in congress make sure that the law enforcement budgets the prosecutors investigators and the justice department f.b.i. f.d.a. are de minimus and that's the way they get rid get get away with the corporate crime ad it's amazing how times change oh reagan at least sent a thousand banks just to jail with the crisis we haven't seen one yet. to create national charters for a large corporation well i goes back to president william howard taft and president teddy roosevelt they saw these big corporations coming up and they said look we can have nevada a you can have new jersey and delaware charter i mean general motors is charter to this day in delaware general motors could buy delaware in a weekend of dupont was willing to settle
that which is power chapter six which i think gets to this crackdown on corporate crime that's simple law enforcement the budgets are the credibly small if you had a massive street crime wave in new york and you only had one hundred cops what would be the obvious next step you hire more cops so we need more federal cops on the corporate crime beat but the corporations in congress make sure that the law enforcement budgets the prosecutors investigators and the justice department f.b.i. f.d.a....
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voting machines take this for example ohio secretary of state john husted has skirted around election laws to install experimental software patches on vote counting tabulators and up to thirty nine ohio counties so what are these uncertified software patches and could they have the potential to alter the election results those are the things we need to be asking in this pivotal election so to help us break through the madness i'm joined now by mark crispin miller professor of media and why you and author of fooled again the real case for electoral reform mark thank you for coming on thanks for having me on i have fled to brooklyn from manhattan in order to have flushing toilets and electricity so you know i ordinarily be in the studio but i couldn't do that today no problem i really appreciate i know things are really crazy over there in new york so you know mark last time we talked we talked mostly about the last the last couple lections and the extensive voting fraud with those let's talk about this election i mean going off what i just said what do you think about these new software pat
voting machines take this for example ohio secretary of state john husted has skirted around election laws to install experimental software patches on vote counting tabulators and up to thirty nine ohio counties so what are these uncertified software patches and could they have the potential to alter the election results those are the things we need to be asking in this pivotal election so to help us break through the madness i'm joined now by mark crispin miller professor of media and why you...
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thousand and eleven and the student protests against jewish a fee hikes for earlier this year the new law which still needs the senate approval will not apply to peaceful rallies maybe and radio reporter michael for eon says. it doesn't target that the lesson but does criminalize anti-government protests. what it does is that it will criminalize people who are in protests if the police of that city deem the protest to be an unlawful assembly now of course that varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction terms of how easy it is for the police force to say this is an unlawful assembly or it is a lawful assembly but let's look at montreal for example and across go back in any major city back where if you were fifty people or more in a in a peaceful protest a nonviolent protest that could be depended on unlawful assembly if you have an opera sense of your itinerary and the directions of according to your protests routes to the police force of the municipality and come back before the protests started and that's what's causing a lot of controversy because people are saying you know it's my inhere
thousand and eleven and the student protests against jewish a fee hikes for earlier this year the new law which still needs the senate approval will not apply to peaceful rallies maybe and radio reporter michael for eon says. it doesn't target that the lesson but does criminalize anti-government protests. what it does is that it will criminalize people who are in protests if the police of that city deem the protest to be an unlawful assembly now of course that varies from jurisdiction to...
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officials have not commented yet whether the dead belong to be islamic sect that wants to impose sharia law in the country media reports say the victims mostly young men were rounded up in house to house searches and then shot. germany's trying hard to ditch in nuclear energy but the result is that electricity prices in the manufacturing powerhouse are becoming shockingly high speed all over now reports the other stings that the country is having to be decidedly non-green to fuel its future. it was a resoundingly no new clear from the german chancellor to the animal abandon you have power completely step by step until the end of the twenty twenty as a country within that we can become pioneers on the way to go we need an age of renewable energy the two thousand and eleven meltdown at the fukushima power plant in japan the worst atomic energy disaster since chernobyl is the key motivation for rushing through nuclear decommissioning is a security concerns are very strong this is the main factor in the decision to begin with the action of nuclear energy in germany.
officials have not commented yet whether the dead belong to be islamic sect that wants to impose sharia law in the country media reports say the victims mostly young men were rounded up in house to house searches and then shot. germany's trying hard to ditch in nuclear energy but the result is that electricity prices in the manufacturing powerhouse are becoming shockingly high speed all over now reports the other stings that the country is having to be decidedly non-green to fuel its future. it...
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law that everybody has served in iraq anything like a platoon much as you know back. in afghanistan my mother didn't get our back. i'm a new york city my opinion your city and it. will be subpoenaed there is no british no owner and i don't see a million. was. this is. a chance delays. please retire ok let's just be honest here for a moment for some people this is and justifiably so a battle about a police state since one thousand a.d. the number of people in prison per capita in the united states has more than tripled we now in prison a greater percentage of our population than any other country in the world in fact the united states is only five percent of the world population has twenty five percent of the world's prison population in the us one in every one hundred six white males aged eighteen or over is incarcerated for hispanic males that number is one in thirty six and one in fifteen black males over eighteen is currently in jail . between one thousand nine hundred seven and two thousand and seven state spending on incarceration related expenses increased one h
law that everybody has served in iraq anything like a platoon much as you know back. in afghanistan my mother didn't get our back. i'm a new york city my opinion your city and it. will be subpoenaed there is no british no owner and i don't see a million. was. this is. a chance delays. please retire ok let's just be honest here for a moment for some people this is and justifiably so a battle about a police state since one thousand a.d. the number of people in prison per capita in the united...
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so because the rubber stamp law is like a sugar price and false track g.m.o. safety checks americans get proven g m o's they can barely afford. was america's richest lobbyist before being imprisoned for bribing congressman but boy those rules he says every u.s. senate should be in jail thanks for being on the truth seeker fundraiser contribute donation private dinner with a politician for fifty thousand dollars first off can we clear up these are all dried. people getting to slater lawmakers and staff guests and contributions and meals and things like that and what i've come to is the estimate that it all of these things ultimately are really just brought here how much is the public paying in kickbacks and subsidies. virtually all the government is involved . in said point i'm constitutional in this country just because decision and the founders of this country had a vision of a better government this country has expanded the federal government in every area of our lives so well that look at the special interest as being very much a part of you see the lobbyis
so because the rubber stamp law is like a sugar price and false track g.m.o. safety checks americans get proven g m o's they can barely afford. was america's richest lobbyist before being imprisoned for bribing congressman but boy those rules he says every u.s. senate should be in jail thanks for being on the truth seeker fundraiser contribute donation private dinner with a politician for fifty thousand dollars first off can we clear up these are all dried. people getting to slater lawmakers...
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international rights and international law we should not bomb iran we need to cut the budget and bring the troops home we should end the war in afghanistan tomorrow . persecutors a little slower close let's. let's split kill the patriot act. again. if you. want to. welcome back to cross talk on people go to remind you we're talking about extreme weather and politics. and. you know it seems like the united states is kind of singled out in many ways because they kind of debate we're having here doesn't happen in other places in the world and it's because of a charge that richard has made is that a lot of people are in denial and they're paid off to be in denial how do you react to that. i think that's silly i don't think that's the reason at all i think that the american. tradition of being stronger and independent. american citizens a parent can people have a tradition of being independent thinkers they don't they don't necessarily believe the experts that are on t.v. they try to figure out things for themselves they go from their own experience and they have a different opinion and tha
international rights and international law we should not bomb iran we need to cut the budget and bring the troops home we should end the war in afghanistan tomorrow . persecutors a little slower close let's. let's split kill the patriot act. again. if you. want to. welcome back to cross talk on people go to remind you we're talking about extreme weather and politics. and. you know it seems like the united states is kind of singled out in many ways because they kind of debate we're having here...
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supplied workers for reconstruction efforts is helping to shine a light on the whole operation japanese law enforcement officials have disclosed that starting in may of last year gang members were sent to the damage reactors they perform cleanup work and began rebuilding damaged areas subcontractor for tepco then awarded the extra hazard pay to the crime boss and a portion of the money was used to settle debts with the crime syndicate. now while you might be thinking that gang members and criminals going in to help clean up a nuclear disaster sounds like a good idea think about it this way these workers are being sacrificed to this job because they are indebted to the mob and they're desperate for work and many of them have little to no experience being sent to what they're doing think about what i just said this may be the most important aspect of all the nuclear disaster resulting from the read major nuclear meltdowns is unfolding by the minute and who sent to work on it gang members with no experience the clean up efforts must be worked on properly or could result in the spread of eighty
supplied workers for reconstruction efforts is helping to shine a light on the whole operation japanese law enforcement officials have disclosed that starting in may of last year gang members were sent to the damage reactors they perform cleanup work and began rebuilding damaged areas subcontractor for tepco then awarded the extra hazard pay to the crime boss and a portion of the money was used to settle debts with the crime syndicate. now while you might be thinking that gang members and...
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these things so there is this question because price gouging there are regulations against it there are laws against it would it help in situations like this. would. i thinking right so i mean that people line up for gas price gouging inherently has a negative connotation to it what i like about situations like this and we saw this after the breakup of the soviet union in russia and in other countries where there is a state vacuum and when the state leaves that vacuum is filled by people people and what they do they create markets and they create products and goods and services so the guy who's got an outlet and an extension cord who brings down the street and charge five dollars to drive your phone there you may cry about it and say i don't want to pay five dollars price gouging are you going to pay it so what does that say about what that means for you that could be very very good for you could make important phone calls that you have to make to reach out to someone for your business that you have to have a deal to have a complete or you need to reach of the family members and incalculable
these things so there is this question because price gouging there are regulations against it there are laws against it would it help in situations like this. would. i thinking right so i mean that people line up for gas price gouging inherently has a negative connotation to it what i like about situations like this and we saw this after the breakup of the soviet union in russia and in other countries where there is a state vacuum and when the state leaves that vacuum is filled by people people...
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prison industry is one that has started pretty much as we saw the surge of s b ten seventy and copycat laws around the country where they were detaining immigrants and sending them to private prison facilities and immigration detention facilities and turning a profit based on contract sometimes up to two hundred dollars a night per immigrant detain and these facilities obviously the two largest ones are the geo group as well as corp america which has profit in the five billion dollar amount a year between both combined that's a drag link and they actually report after report says that they actually lobbied to have those anti immigrant last pass because they need immigrants to fill those detentions in order to turn a profit great axle and now the report left some service says of wells fargo offers to let you know customers well site offers an advertising geared toward hispanics they're accepting that take a lot of meticulous of course identification cards issued to formal foreign national partnerships with latin latino community groups and remittance services so can you explain a little bit
prison industry is one that has started pretty much as we saw the surge of s b ten seventy and copycat laws around the country where they were detaining immigrants and sending them to private prison facilities and immigration detention facilities and turning a profit based on contract sometimes up to two hundred dollars a night per immigrant detain and these facilities obviously the two largest ones are the geo group as well as corp america which has profit in the five billion dollar amount a...
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war crime in any event shooting people after this and specially without the people is a war crime in law both domestic and international and i think this should be viewed in that light the western states especially the usa and france where willing to probably sacrifice half the population of syria to get rid of the regime they were not choosy in there and they're backing anybody anybody who actually pause. on a fire which is burning is actually participating in the crowd this is what the u.s. is doing this is what france europe and the u.k. are doing and this is the reason why for instance kofi annan and the the mission he said if you want to change the regime go and do it if you want to me to stop the killing then stop putting the trial on the fire this is what the letter brahimi is facing now and the second attempt to try and stop the killing but i think the western nations they are talking one way and acting in another way but i think what is amazing it when the secretary of state of the usa has dramatically changed its position when they were pushing all the world to recognize the co
war crime in any event shooting people after this and specially without the people is a war crime in law both domestic and international and i think this should be viewed in that light the western states especially the usa and france where willing to probably sacrifice half the population of syria to get rid of the regime they were not choosy in there and they're backing anybody anybody who actually pause. on a fire which is burning is actually participating in the crowd this is what the u.s....